2025.11.27: Unthanksgiving

Speaker 0 Hey! We're recording the podcast!

Speaker 1 Gut up!

Speaker 2 For November 27th!

Speaker 1 No, it's the 28th, isn't it? 27th. Oh, you're right.
2025. Hey!

Speaker 1 He started laughing immediately.

Speaker 2 I have never seen you fall apart like that on an intro. I mean, you've had giggles, but that was a full thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 It reminded me when I heard the turkey sound, it reminded me of

Speaker 1 some dude.

Speaker 1 I don't think the guys speak English in the video, but they're outside of a turkey pen and the guy's like yelling to them, gobble, gobble, gobble. Then they start gobble, gobbling.

Speaker 2 All the other turkeys respond.

Speaker 1 That's your phone. My phone is not on silent.
Man, I'm having a hell of a start this morning. It's Thanksgiving, everybody.

Speaker 1 If you're, if you're in America and if you're in anywhere, anywhere else in the world, it is Thursday.

Speaker 1 Thursday, Thursday. It is amazing how important that holiday is.
And like, even this morning, I woke up and I'm like, it's Thanksgiving. And it's like, the kids are going to school and everything.

Speaker 1 And I was like, what?

Speaker 2 What's happening? Well, that's because

Speaker 2 I feel like Thursday marks the official start of the Christmas holidays. Like, if you're trying to get a meeting or get something done

Speaker 2 or like you get someone on the phone or whatever between now and Christmas in the U.S.

Speaker 2 give up.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I have a thing on my desk right now where the guy was like, can we get this done by Thanksgiving? I go, yeah, just send me a done by the end of the week.

Speaker 1 And he's like, yesterday he was like, I'm leaving at 1230 today. And I'm like, of course you are.
Of course you are.

Speaker 2 I'll see you in January. Yeah.
It's or it's like, even if you're in the office,

Speaker 1 I'm not sweating. You know what I mean? I'm not sweating it too hard.
It's fine. Everything's fine.

Speaker 1 You used to stress about stuff like that more. I don't at all, at all.

Speaker 2 It's weird. Well, I think what's happened, Bernie, is that you have been utterly beaten down, right? By

Speaker 2 the timelines of living where we do. Yeah.

Speaker 2 We're rural.

Speaker 2 You know, we're the north of Scotland, which is not an incredibly populous country already. So getting things done, the timelines and the expectations for that are a lot longer than we're used to.

Speaker 1 Incredibly long.

Speaker 2 You know, I mean, I'm used to just like doing, like going on Google and being like, I need a plumber and calling and saying, hey, I I don't know, a tap's leaking. Can you come out today and fix it?

Speaker 2 And someone, I don't know who because I don't have a regular plumber, but would come and they would fix it and it would be done.

Speaker 2 And then I would not think about plumbers again for, you know, another year. So here, we know the plumber.
We know by name. And we know, we know the plumber's son, who is also the plumber.

Speaker 2 And like we are on a first name basis. They show up and we're like, can I get you a tea? Thank you so much for coming out.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 2 Thank you for making the time.

Speaker 1 That's the way it works for you. Here's the way it works for me.
I call the front office and I talk to the other son and I say, hey, we've got this problem. It's not like a major problem.

Speaker 1 It's not like we've burst a pipe and everything's flooding or anything like that, but it's, it's just this leaky thing, like a tap or something like that. We need to take a look at it.

Speaker 1 I'm like, oh, okay, I'll talk to him and we'll see. And then they just come by at some point.
No appointment, nothing. They come and they fix the thing.

Speaker 1 And I go to call them back like a week and a half later. I'm like, hey, I just want to see if you guys can get around to coming out here.
And they're like, we we came out before.

Speaker 2 It's done if you haven't.

Speaker 1 Didn't say hi to anybody, just came out and fixed it.

Speaker 2 It is, yeah, it is. I forgot to send you an invoice.

Speaker 1 We'll send it later.

Speaker 2 So, timelines out here, I think, have really tempered our expectations of like getting things done immediately.

Speaker 1 Yes. Oh, yeah.
That you can bend the fabric of space and time to your will. That's the way you feel in America a lot of times.
You don't,

Speaker 1 there's no bending. You're going to bend.

Speaker 2 You are the spoon. You are bending.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 2 speaking of bending space and time,

Speaker 2 I'm having a real issue. And this is, this is, I'm angry, I'm upset, I am unthankful on the kids.
Oh, you're

Speaker 1 unthankful. Let's talk about all the things we're unthankful for.
Hey, we're not in America. We're not going to be thankful for Jack's shit today.

Speaker 2 Well, this is, I'm specifically unthankful on the kids' behalf for this. So I guess it is an Mosquitoes.

Speaker 2 It is a tradition, an annual tradition. Like Paw Patrol puts out a new movie every year.

Speaker 2 And this year, it's a Paw Patrol Christmas movie. And I thought that is so great.
Perfect timing. I'm going to take the kids to see this in the movie theater where it's currently showing.

Speaker 2 And so I went to look up show times. Our local theater only showing it at like 11 a.m.
on Wednesday and Thursday when the kids are in school.

Speaker 1 What? What?

Speaker 2 The only showtimes for this film are when the kids are in school.

Speaker 1 They got to have notes. They got to have weekend showtimes.

Speaker 2 Nope. There was nothing.

Speaker 2 There was no 3 p.m. There's no 4 p.m.
It was 11, like 20 a.m. That was it.
That's all you got. And so I thought, I understand the local theater is smaller, limited.
Maybe they need to

Speaker 2 make space for wicked, right? They're holding space for that one.

Speaker 2 And so I'll look at like one of the other theaters, a little bit further drive, worth it for the kids. They'll love this.
No, everyone has agreed to show this movie exclusively at 11 a.m.

Speaker 2 on a weekday. That's frustrating.
It's incredibly frustrating.

Speaker 1 And so it doesn't make any sense at all.

Speaker 2 And then there's like no more show times. It's November, and now it's going out of the theaters.
I assume because that's it's probably gonna come to streaming. It's gonna be a lot easier to watch.

Speaker 2 But the point is, it's in theaters, and I can't, I'm trying to take the kids to watch it, and I can't. And probably what's gonna happen is they're gonna look at the box office performance and go,

Speaker 2 clearly not really a lot of demand for this, instead of looking at how freaking dumb it was scheduled.

Speaker 1 So I'm on the same stage. This is gonna sound like I'm making a sarcastic joke.
I'm not making a sarcastic joke when I ask this question. Wasn't Paw Patrol

Speaker 1 canceled culturally?

Speaker 1 What? Because of BLM? Wasn't it?

Speaker 2 Was Paw Patrol canceled?

Speaker 1 It was like the whole cop thing, right? And then they were. I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding. I knew somebody who worked on the show.
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 And they were talking about leaving the show because they're like, everyone,

Speaker 1 it's too authoritarian now. Which sounds weird now saying that in 2025, you know?

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, it's also.

Speaker 1 You should add an ice agent to the ball.

Speaker 2 The fun part of it is that

Speaker 2 uh the the cop pup um is also there's like he has like a super like like a riot gear version but it but it's he's a spy he's got like a drone and he like he can fly a drone around i mean you know he he is doing his best his manager is like an 11 year old so you know i you got to temper some expectations 2025 you should have chase the cop.

Speaker 1 What's the name of the firefighter one? Marshall. Marshall.
Then you have Rubble, the construction one.

Speaker 1 And then you have one that's just all in riot gear with a mask over its face, and you're not allowed to know its name, right?

Speaker 1 It operates under an executive order, and that's why it's here. It's just a secret police version of Paw Patrol.

Speaker 2 You ask it, and the screen goes black.

Speaker 1 Fucking Gestapo. I was talking with somebody in the pub last night about it, and I said they were trying to understand what it is.
I go, you don't have to try to work out what it is.

Speaker 1 It's exactly what it looks like.

Speaker 2 If there's no identification, if there's no like official

Speaker 1 Thanksgiving, Ashley.

Speaker 1 in america nobody wants to talk about politics and nobody ever does talk about politics on thanksgiving definitely not not at thanksgiving dinner worst day ever it's also there's a tradition now on thanksgiving too where

Speaker 1 bitcoin crashes right before thanksgiving so all the guys have to go to thanksgiving dinner and be like what's it how's your bitcoin doing i heard it died and it doesn't exist anymore or whatever i heard they canceled bitcoin yeah so uh one thing that's uh interesting that has happened is now tether are you familiar with Tether?

Speaker 1 One of the stable coins that's out there?

Speaker 2 Tether? Not really.

Speaker 1 Yeah, stable coins are a weird thing. It's a cryptocurrency specific coin.
They peg it to the U.S. dollar.

Speaker 1 They are now the largest holder, independent, which I guess means non-governmental agency, largest holder of gold in the world. What? Yeah, interesting, right? Very.

Speaker 1 And JP Morgan, who keeps popping up in discussions about cryptocurrency lately,

Speaker 1 like either defending it and saying it's going to 250, or there's talk behind the scenes that they're shorting the hell out of it.

Speaker 1 I was starting to talk about this Michael Saylor the other day and his company, Strategy, which used to be called MicroStrategy, who has bought a phenomenal amount of Bitcoin.

Speaker 2 So he upgraded from a micro strategy to a regular size strategy.

Speaker 1 I think when people heard MicroStrategy, maybe they heard that it was, maybe that sounds like Microsoft to a lot of people. Anyway, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Like the rumor is they're shorting the hell out of his company. And now they're saying that they're downgrading Tether because of their holdings in both Bitcoin and in gold.

Speaker 2 So I'm curious. Let me double-check that to make sure it's not something else.

Speaker 2 When crypto calls itself a stable coin, is that because it's expected to be less volatile than regular cryptocurrency where you're not seeing like 30% drops

Speaker 2 in a day like you can with Bitcoin?

Speaker 1 There's a lot of applications for it that I didn't really understand. And one I heard recently that made sense was people paying back investments using a stable coin.

Speaker 1 It's like, what's the value of something if it's basically just pegged to the value of the US dollar? the value of it is you don't have to go through a bank in order to transfer money to people.

Speaker 1 And you have to go through like transaction fees and stuff like that. It can be faster.
Like, literally, like, I'll just send you this money right now.

Speaker 1 And there's no like on the top, like, rake that somebody takes or something like that. Right.

Speaker 2 And also, I assume though, no protections either.

Speaker 1 I shake boot rights. Exactly.
No, that's that's the tough thing for a lot of people when you know something they make a mistake or just something disappears and then they go to call who? Nobody.

Speaker 1 Like there's nobody to whom they should put their call.

Speaker 2 Right. That is that is the upside and the downside.
It is

Speaker 2 freedom and free from protection.

Speaker 1 One of the worst customer service call center jobs in the world at this point is probably working for Coinbase.

Speaker 1 You know, for people who are doing crypto transactions, but they have an obligation to provide customer service to those people. That's got to be rough.
That's got to be rough.

Speaker 2 Like, how do you do that?

Speaker 1 This is from MSN. This is SP downgrades USDT,

Speaker 1 which is Tether, over its exposure to Bitcoin and gold. So Tether has increased gold in Bitcoin purchases in recent months.
So just a little circle back fact check there.

Speaker 2 But that's interesting. That's interesting to me because gold has gone up so much.
Which means

Speaker 2 wouldn't that offset gold?

Speaker 1 It's due to come down, right? I mean, it's like you were saying yesterday about stock prices and everything. Somebody has a big quarter and everyone sells.
It's like, why? The company's doing great.

Speaker 1 It's all future performance. That's all.
It's just, what's the future performance of this thing going to be?

Speaker 2 You're giving me future performance anxiety.

Speaker 1 A lot of times or when they try to, a lot of times,

Speaker 1 when they try to like upgrade or downgrade these stocks, it's like if you had money to put in the market today and invest, you know, what would you do today, right? Okay.

Speaker 1 It's not necessarily like you're all sitting in there with a bunch of money and a bunch of holdings and like sell, sell, sell.

Speaker 1 You got to kind of think of it like, if you were going to spend a dollar today of investment, where would you spend it? Man, I hate the market. It's all about new business, actually.

Speaker 1 BD is the call of the industry. Business development.

Speaker 2 Got no patience for it. Yeah.
Got no patience to develop that business.

Speaker 1 Anyway, so can we talk about some other stuff that we're unthankful for?

Speaker 2 That's the theme. Let's go for it.

Speaker 1 You're talking about movie stuff. Tron got a release date.
First week-ish of December, you will be able to see Tron Aries. And then it's coming to home video like

Speaker 1 January.

Speaker 2 That's another one that we actually, we tried to go see it. Not its opening week, but like the week after.
We did try to go see it, and it was already gone from

Speaker 2 our nearby theaters.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so it looks like that one is coming out. I hate having to scroll down.
Here we go. December 2nd.
When does it come on disc?

Speaker 1 It's January.

Speaker 2 In January. So I was going to say, like, they'll at least make a great Christmas gift, but it won't.

Speaker 1 This is your Tron Thanksgiving podcast. If you're unthankful, you don't want to be unthankful for anything.
Be unthankful for Tron.

Speaker 2 This movie came in in October, and we're still trying to figure out how to watch it.

Speaker 1 It's true.

Speaker 1 The other thing about streaming services is I feel like you have a streaming service, and if something makes its way to your streaming service, service you watch it but if it's not on your streaming service you don't although we did have a conversation the other day where you said do we have paramount and i said we can get it why and you wanted to watch what something it's because i'm trying to figure out how to watch this paw patrol movie for the kids oh fascist

Speaker 2 look they also have a recycling pup and now there's a now there's a cat pack eco-terrorist pup they're uh they're they're making friends with cats like i i can't even keep up with the lore of the paw Patrol universe these days.

Speaker 1 They have cats and Paw Patrol?

Speaker 2 Look, they also have dinosaurs, you know? I mean,

Speaker 2 there's a lot to the Paw Patrol universe. There's also an 11-year-old in charge of all emergency response in this town.

Speaker 1 Also, I can't figure out what the age range for Paw Patrol is because we have some Paw Patrol bedtime stories, which I hate them because they're like a small novel.

Speaker 1 And it's like, if you're a parent reading to kids. at night, one book is one book to those kids.
It doesn't matter if you could read War and Peace.

Speaker 1 At the the end of it, they go, can I have another story? It's like they get, that's not the way kids' brains work. It's all just quantities, and that's it.

Speaker 1 So a super short bedtime story is fantastic because then you can read like three or four of them, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think, I think Evie's worked out that there are some specific bedtime stories that get her more reading time, and she asks for those ones.

Speaker 2 One of them, ironically, is called The Quickest Bedtime Story Ever.

Speaker 1 I've read this one.

Speaker 2 And it is not a quick story to read.

Speaker 1 But I like it. I like the theme of it because it's like the author's writing for the parents.
Like, we know you're reading a long story, but it's the shortest bedtime story ever. Ever.

Speaker 2 Well, while we're talking about, this is a very film-heavy episode, Bernie.

Speaker 2 One of the things that movie theaters have been missing lately, I feel like, is romantic comedies. Would you agree? There haven't been a lot of them that have been huge successes.

Speaker 1 I know. I certainly haven't been to any.
And I've been thinking, wow, what about romantic comedies?

Speaker 2 Bernie, I found them.

Speaker 2 They went to Korea.

Speaker 1 All of them? All of of them.

Speaker 2 All of the romantic comedies. They all went to Korea.

Speaker 1 So like Kate Hudson and Matthew Conahey are hanging out in Korea.

Speaker 2 In yellow dresses and such.

Speaker 1 Who's like the go-to guy for romantic comedies now that Matthew McConaughey has made the switch to being like Oscar award-winning art house actor?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, according to like the only rom-com that's come out and made a lot of money lately, Glenn Powell.

Speaker 1 Oh, right. That was the Sidney Sweeney one, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah. And that was the one, you know, they marketed that one with all the like behind-the-scenes affair drama.
It came out. It actually did gangbusters at the movie theater.

Speaker 2 And that's like the, that's like the only rom-com that's made those kind of waves in recent times.

Speaker 1 Also, it was like at the time when they were in that movie, I kind of felt like, oh, that's really cool that they're in a movie together.

Speaker 1 It's Sidney Sweeney and that guy who was kind of in Top Gun, right? Right. And now Glenn Powell is a massive star who's in basically everything all the time.

Speaker 1 And Sidney Sweeney's like fighting for her life everywhere.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 the the tables have definitely turned on that every time I look up there's some article about Sidney Sweeney or like the meme of her just staring at you.

Speaker 2 Yeah, now like like she's you know, she's now awful and he is a darling. Yeah.
Yeah. So it's a things have definitely turned.

Speaker 2 But I found the Korean romantic comedy like limited series dramas on Netflix and I have to tell you they're everything I've been missing. Oh, yeah.
They're super cheesy.

Speaker 2 They a lot of them are like based on web novels and they lean into it.

Speaker 2 So they'll have like you know, like little like chalk drawings go across the screen, or the character's cheeks go like bright red with like little drawings on them.

Speaker 2 Uh, and or they like they pause to think about something because they're in a panic, and it like they have all like a whole side scene that's like a fantasy, kind of like uh, like they would have in Scrubs.

Speaker 2 You know, they're just uh one of the characters, which by the way, coming back and they released their first teaser for that, but that's a whole other thing.

Speaker 2 Uh, uh, where it's just like a whole like side fantasy that happens like in the blink of an eye, and there's a lot of like, oh,

Speaker 2 mistaken identity or you're going to love this one, problematic power dynamics in like boss employee relationships. It's incredible.

Speaker 1 Has there ever been a reunion though, going to talking about the Scrubs things where people really want a reunion, but then they have the reunion and everyone's like, that was amazing.

Speaker 1 Like, does that ever happen? Well, all I can think about is reality shows when they get the cast together at the end of the last episode.

Speaker 2 And they're like, yeah, none of us fucking hate each other. Yeah.
Well, I mean, they've, there was a trend fairly recently where they would do like a reunion special for TV shows.

Speaker 2 I think they did one for like Gilmore Girls, they did one for Friends, they've done one for a lot of those popular TV shows where it's they're not bringing the show back, but they come back for like this special where they're like, oh man, what great times, right?

Speaker 2 Don't we all love this show? Yeah, we love this show and we love each other.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's a totally different program and format, but SNL 50 was good. With

Speaker 2 people like that, but that's a little bit different, but yeah, so it's it's interesting to me that Scrubs is coming back with the original cast as like this full new

Speaker 2 reboot follow-on sequel series. And I wonder how they're going to treat.
Remember, there was the

Speaker 2 there was the last season of Scrubs that was a totally different cast.

Speaker 1 Are you familiar with this at all?

Speaker 2 Not at all. So, yeah, there was a final episode of Scrubs, but all the, like, Scrubs wrapped up and was done.
And they were like, but we want another season. The network says another season.

Speaker 2 And the cast was like, they're done. So they got a whole new cast in.
And I wonder how that is going to fold in, if at all, or any of those characters going to wander across the screen.

Speaker 2 Are they going to pretend it never existed?

Speaker 1 I don't know. It's a good question.
It's a good question. Or does it really matter? I mean,

Speaker 1 are they all going back and just picking up where they left off?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, they're all doctors together in the same hospital, it seems.

Speaker 2 So maybe.

Speaker 1 Scrubs is a really interesting show because it is one of those shows that... It's like a light-hearted comedy, but then they hammer you with that melodrama sometimes.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, that seems to be the case with a lot of medical stuff, right?

Speaker 2 Is it's like they try to be whimsical and they're, they're trying to like, you know, keep it together and they're all hot messes in their non-hospital life, uh, you know, and they're, they're just trying to have a good time and be whimsical, but also people are dying.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 2 And they're suffering from these, you know, diseases that sometimes they can fix and sometimes all they can do is make them comfortable.

Speaker 2 And so they're, that's, I feel like inherent in the medical genre.

Speaker 1 That's right. I think, I think it's, it could be a good trend.

Speaker 1 Like if this works well then you could have like down the road you could have the paw patrol reunion where they're all put on trial right that's like the final episode of seinfeld paw patrol accountability

Speaker 1 you will love it

Speaker 1 People will love it. All right, Ashley, let's let people go eat their Thanksgiving dinner with their totally not political discussions with their family today.

Speaker 2 Good luck dodging those, everyone. And especially good luck to Liam Morgan and Kate Kinder.

Speaker 2 Thank you both so much for sponsoring this episode of our show at patreon.com slash morningsomewhere and roosterteeth.com.

Speaker 1 All right, that does it for us today, Unthankful Thanksgiving 2025. We will be back to talk to you tomorrow.
We hope you will be here as well. Bye, everybody.